Democrat Demands U.S. Drill For More Oil

Democrat Senator Joe Manchin warned President Biden and his fellow Democrats that the United States simply cannot cut off fossil fuels because it would put the country in the same position as Germany.

Manchin also pointed that the war in Ukraine could have been prevented if Putin didn’t have the advantage of all the money Russia made from selling energy to other countries.

In transcript provided by Breitbart, Manchin said, “But you cannot get rid of what I call the horsepower of energy, which is your coal, your natural gas, and the nukes that are going to be needed, and oil that we need. And the oil’s going to be [used], so why shouldn’t we develop the technology that uses it cleaner? And then, go down a parallel path, a parallel path with technology, advancing that and a parallel path with making sure we have sustainable horsepower for fossil fuel that will give us the reliability. … I’m trying to put together what we call a North American energy alliance. The North American continent can be the energy capital of the world and do it cleaner and better and set a standard for the whole world. That’s what we should be doing, but people that are denying and saying, oh, we don’t want fossil at all, stop it today, we’ll end up like Germany and where Europe’s caught in a crunch right now.”

Manchin further explained, “[Y]ou can’t do it by just cutting it off. It won’t work, Hoppy. We wouldn’t be in a war right now, in Putin’s war with Ukraine if he didn’t have this type of advantage in what he’s holding over everyone’s head.”